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Attempt to Deactivate Okta MFA Rule

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Attempt to Deactivate Okta MFA Rule

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An adversary may attempt to deactivate an Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA) rule in order to remove or weaken an organization’s security controls.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Identity and Access

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if Okta MFA rules are regularly deactivated in your organization.

Investigation guide

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The Okta Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:policy.rule.deactivate

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:policy.rule.deactivate
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